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From The National Interest, a review of The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan. Maps never come without baggage: A review of A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton (and more). How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us: Digital maps on smartphones are brilliantly useful tools, but what sort of information do they gather about us — and how do they shape the way we look at the world? How Google Earth changed the world: As Amazon and Apple race to break a mapping monopoly, Tim Walker charts the rise and uncertain future of a cartographical masterpiece. William Beutler creates Infinite Atlas — a pretty, Google Maps-powered annotated guide to Boston and surrounding area — and Infinite Map, a 24" x 36" poster of O.N.A.N. (the Organization of North American Nations that encompasses the United States, Canada, and Mexico). From Strange Maps, Frank Jacobs on Germany’s equators. A look at how transit users trust distorted subway maps way too much. Nicholas Baldo on geographical illiteracy in Civilization V. It’s a small (and cartographically incorrect) world after all.

From FDL, a book salon on Sabotage: How the Republican Party Crippled America’s Economic Recovery by Daniel Altman. Americans want to live in a much more equal country (they just don't realize it). The withering of the affluent society: Though Americans see upward mobility as their birthright, that assumption faces growing challenges, with consequences not just for the size of our wallets but for the tenor of our politics. A review of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers’ Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Steve Early. The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren't buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy. Did Barack Obama save Ohio? Why the battle to take credit for Ohio’s ever-so-slightly above-average economy could swing the presidential election. Larry Hanley, the national leader of one of America’s feistiest unions, is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate — he’s proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes at the bottom rise first. How to get to full employment despite the political constraints: A review of Back to Full Employment by Robert Pollin.